` Dear Kate, Craig and Linkers Sincere apologies everyone for my Link mechanism assumptions and the following over-reaction. And to Kate and Craig especially many many thanks for your kindness and your info-tech expertise.
This morning, who wouldn't just love Link? Steve Loosley :-) ---- On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 09:39:48 +0930 Craig Sanders wrote --- > On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 03:38:14PM +1000, Kate Lance wrote: > > > The list discussed a few weeks ago that it was probably an automatic message > > from the mailing-list software because of some unfortunate incident at ANU. > > It's certainly not personal. If ANU wants to do this - for a mailing-list > > on their infrastructure whose benefits we've enjoyed for free for decades - > > then of course they can. > > This seems to have started in March this year. > > My guess is that it's inserting that scamwatch message to any message with > a From: header containing an outlook.com or gmail.com address (maybe other > well-known e-mail account providers too). > > (and it's probably happening at ANU's mail servers, not the mailing-list > server - lots of spam/scam/virus email gets sent directly to recipients, not > to lists) > > Given the amount of spam from those domains, someone probably thought this was > a reasonable compromise compared to simply blocking such mail. > > I disagree - IMO, you should either accept or reject a message, never change > it. But a) I can understand why someone might think it's reasonable especially > when they're receiving mail for many thousands of probably-not-tech-savvy > and possibly clueless or gullible staff and students and b) it's not my mail > server so I have no say in it. > > I know on my own mail server I wish I could just block mail from those domains > but there's also a lot of legitimate mail from them, too much to simply block > them. Instead, most mail from outlook & gmail gets caught by my header and > body check anti-spam filters (which costs a lot more processing power and time > than simply blocking the domains during the SMTP session) and ends up in the > quarrantine folder. > > > I just grepped my current LINK inbox, and Stephen is the ONLY person sending > from an outlook.com address in the last several years (since 2017 or so). > And there's only one person sending with a From: header matching @gmail.com. > They're the only messages that have had the scamwatch warning added. > > Stephen, you can test this by trying to send a message from an alternate > address if you have one. You may have to subscribe from the alternate first, > depending on whether LINK only accepts mail from subscribers or not. > > > craig > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
